For Medium Density (MD) server, co-residency policy supports for any 4 UC applications and 1 Provisioning application as long as they fit in 8vCPU and 32GvRAM.
For High Density (MD) server, co-residency policy supports for any 8 UC applications and 1 Provisioning application as long as they fit in 16vCPU and 48GvRAM.

1vCPU should be reserved for ESXi scheduler if CUC is deployed in a VM.

Note: You must install only one of the provisioning applications.

Power on the UCS C220M3 Server

Connect a USB keyboard and VGA monitor by using the supplied KVM cable connected to the KVM connector on the front panel.

Power on the server and let it boot up.

Press F2 key to configure VMware ESXi Hypervisor 5.

Enter default Login Name as root and Password as password. Press Enter.

To change the default password, select Configure Password. Enter the Old Password and New Password. Press Enter.

Select Configure Management Network and press Enter key.

Select IP Configuration and press Enter key

By default, the IP address is set to DHCP. To set Static IP address, select Set static IP address and enter IP Address, Subnet Mask and Default Gateway and press Enter key.

Enter VLAN (optional) if needed.

Press Esc key to Exit.

Press Y to apply changes and restart management network.

Press Esc key to log out

Next step: Accessing Virtual Machine

Connect NIC-1 on the back of the UCS C220M3 server to your network.

Connect a Windows PC in the same network as UCS C220M3 server and make sure you are able to ping it.

To configure the VM Host with a valid NTP server, click on Configuration > Software > Time Configuration and Properties.

Note: Some of the applications if installed wouldrequireNTP settings, for example Cisco Telepresence Video Communication Server.

If the date and time are red, then set the date and time manually to the current time.

Click Options. Select NTP Settings and click Add.

Enter the IP address of the NTP server. Click OK.

Select the Restart NTP service to apply changes check box.

Click OK twice.

The Date & Time should be synchronized with the NTP server

Click on the Configuration tab and then select Storage under Hardware section. Right click on the datastore1 and choose Browse Datastore. All the application ISO images and OVA templates supported will be placed in the datastore.

In order to deploy OVA, you must download the OVA file to the desktop. From the datastore1, download the required OVA template files to the desktop.

Note: To download OVA files, around 5 GB of disk space is required on the local drive.

Deploy OVA template and creating VM

Deploy the OVA template for the applications that you are planning to installs.

Deploying OVA for CUCM application

On the main tab in vSphere client, go to File > Deploy OVF template

On the Source screen, Browse to the CUCM OVA file on the local desktop and click on Open. Click Next.

Deploying OVA for VCS-C application

Ensure that the VM Host is configured with a valid NTP server – the same NTP server that will be specified in VCS.

Deploying OVA file

Most of configuration screens will be same as provide for Deploying OVA for CUCM. Only the differences are listed here.

Read the End User License Agreement, if acceptable, click Accept and then click Next.

Deploying OVA for Cisco Paging application

Most of configuration screens will be same as provide for Deploying OVA for CUCM. Only the differences are listed here.

Application Installation

Currently BE6000 supports maximum of 5 applications running simultaneously in virtualized environment. To select the applications to be installed, go to ‘'How the 5 applications can be installed’' section previously.

Recommended Installation Practice

Concurrent application installation is possible to reduce overall installation time

The applications can be installed in any order

Install CUCM and CUC separately as they share same .iso image

Installing CUCM 9.0

Note: The installation time for this application is around 1 hour.

Click on ‘+’ sign next to server IP address. Right click on the Virtual Machine (Cisco Unified Communication Manager) and press Power On

Click the Open Console icon to view the virtual machine display.

For Media check before the installation process, select Yes and press Enter.

To get the software images of the VMware ESXi and Cisco Unified Communications applications, please use the media disks shipped with the order. Cisco recommends archiving installation files directly from the hypervisor datastore.